The Art of Combat
Subtitle: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570
Contributors: Jeffrey L. Forgeng (Translator)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 19, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781403970923
Subjects: History - Military / War; History; Military; Europe - Germany; Fencing; Military - Strategy; History / Military / Strategy
Description: Among the substantial legacy of martial arts texts left by combat masters working in the medieval German tradition, this book stands out as one of the most remarkable and important, translated for the first time in English by Jeffrey Forgeng. The only major original text in this corpus to be disseminated in print, Meyer's manual is an ambitious comprehensive encyclopedia of traditional German martial arts, covering a range of weapons forms, and offering a rationalized introduction to a complex and organic tradition inherited from the Middle Ages. - Publisher.